Robert Neffson

Robert Neffson (born December 28, 1949) is an American painter known for his street scenes of various cities around the world, and for his early still lifes and figure paintings.

Neffson was born in New York City and grew up in Little Neck, New York. He was raised by a single father, after his mother, an amateur artist, died when he was seven. He began attending classes at the Art Students League of New York in 1961, under the instruction of artists such as Lennart Anderson and Sidney Dickinson. As a student he copied old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. His study of, among others, the painters Jan Vermeer, Thomas Eakins, Camille Corot, and Canaletto, developed his skills further. While attending the Boston University College of Fine Arts, from which he graduated cum laude in 1971, Neffson’s work attracted the attention of his professors, including James Weeks and the abstract expressionist painter, Philip Guston.

He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine and the Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts, both on full scholarship. Achieving his master's degree in Fine Arts for Painting in 1973, again from Boston University, Neffson taught briefly at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Fisher College in Boston. He received the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation and the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation Grants in support of his work.

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